[R] Status of installing XML package on widows

[Milan Bouchet-Valat]

Le jeudi 03 octobre 2013 à 10:35 +0200, rolf.kemper at renesas.com a
écrit :
> 
> Hello Experts,
> 
> I would like to utilize the XML package which is obviously quite new.
> 
> There are tons of messages in the web dealing with issues on that.
> But I did not see any clear up to date solution.
> On top my R on windows tell me that this is not available fro 3.01
> which is quite puzzling for me.
> 
> So what is the latest status ?
> Can I run it with R 3.01 ?
> 
> Here is what I did:
> #########################################################################################################
> > version
>                _
> platform       x86_64-w64-mingw32
> arch           x86_64
> os             mingw32
> system         x86_64, mingw32
> status
> major          3
> minor          0.1
> year           2013
> month          05
> day            16
> svn rev        62743
> language       R
> version.string R version 3.0.1 (2013-05-16)
> nickname       Good Sport
> >
> > install.packages('XML', repos='http://cran.r-mirror.de')
> Warning: unable to access index for repository
> http://cran.r-mirror.de/bin/windows/contrib/3.0
> Warning message:
> package ?XML? is not available (for R version 3.0.1)
> >
> ##########################################################################################################
> 
> Do I have a chance to install it somehow ?
> What about installing on linux for redhat5 ?
> 
> 
> Sorry for so many questions. I think this is a very, very  useful
> package and I see many possible applications.
The XML package is a little special on Windows: you must not point via
the "repos" option to a CRAN mirror, since XML is hosted on Brian
Ripley's CRAN extras repository at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/RWin/
(see the R FAQ point 5.1.2). This repository is enabled by default on
Windows, so
install.packages("XML")
should be enough there.


Regards

> Thanks a lot
> 
> Rolf
> 
> 
> 
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